Editorials: Menace to Society/Old News
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A Menace to Society The Boy President's State of the Union speech, delivered midst the whirl of fresh scandals, was suitably infantile. Again he...
...Things will get worse...
...Both religion and politics have an admirable place in life, but the way the Clintons play politics is ominous...
...She urges investigations...
...way through the sexual harass- ''''--ment case and to discredit Jones in the process as he has done with so many ordinary people who got in his way...
...In recent years he has been lying to government officials, often while under oath...
...She now makes the rounds on national television urging "investigations" of those she perceives are her husband's enemies...
...In years prior to her tenure as first lady she served on the boards of various left-wing organizations and labored ardently in left-wing causes...
...I have a plan that will see to it that henceforth the intern program will be reserved for senior citizens, Americans tempered by life's experiences, and no cute old ladies with their gray hair up in a bun...
...They were constant candidates in student government...
...That last item again has its roots in earlier Clinton scandals...
...Upon entering adult life, they continued their full immersion in politics...
...The federal jobs it appears he has handed out for sexual favors or silence are more consequential, some being at least marginally related to national security...
...Can't you hear him coyly admitting that yes, he has personally sacrificed time on Saturday mornings to come down to the Oval Office to help young people out with their sexual problems...
...Back then Clinton was misusing government property, police, even—within days of his election—the Secret Service...
...Finally, the president may have dragged such distinguished Americans as Vernon Jordaninto his cheap felonies...
...Instead he gam- c c bled on his ability to lie his C...
...Conspiracy theories as exposited by Hillary Clinton are the last refuge of the intellectually lazy and the morally desperate...
...Clinton's reckless disregard for truth and propriety ensured future scrapes such as those now in the news...
...Yet what of Kathleen Willey...
...Yet Clinton could still have saved himself from hispresent misery had he merely settled with Jones months ago when an agreement was at hand...
...Ah, but even the President of the United States can only do so much—or so many...
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...Two other important elements in those stories practically foreordained the present stories...
...They know more witnesses of their rude ways are coming forward...
...There are a couple of elements in today's news stories that were not there in 1994...
...Those gals drive me wild...
...It is time the Republicans stop playing politics with the White House intern program...
...His present lies are more brazen, and they have been told to a wider national audience through the national press...
...I can see him expressing his vast dissatisfaction over the sexual illiteracy he has personally experienced with recent college graduates...
...Those jobs, by the way, will constitute another scandal...
...The first couple speaks of a right-wing conspiracy...
...His wife, however, threatens to become a menace, at least to civil liberties...
...Under oath she has admitted—against her will —that the president harassed her in the White House...
...It is not made up...
...His latest seductions have included younger women...
...David Brock in his biography of her, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, chronicles much of it...
...Because of the depositions Jones's lawyers have been conducting, we now know about more women who have been subjected to Clinton's ardors...
...Actually, Clinton's present crisis might not have arrived as thunderously as it did were it not for an editorial oversight in the Spectator's original Troopergate piece...
...That attempt to discredit Jones just made her mad...
...As editor of TAS, I can tell you the Clintons have not been able to disprove any element in any story we have ever reported—not in our stories of adultery, financial corruption, obstruction ofjustice, abuse of power, conflicts of interest, or any of the other ingredients of Clinton politics...
...I Old News W ith January's squalid accounts of still more White House cuties, this amazing man that we call president has taken us 36o degrees, right back to where we started four years ago in January 1994...
...Later he told me that he had researched the subject in the Bible and oral sex isn't considered adultery...
...And now the first lady is attempting to shift the nation's attenFOUR PLUS YEARS AGO IN The American Spectator On yet another occasion that Patterson described, the governor and his security detail arrived at the Little Rock airport and Clinton told his bodyguards that he was going to be driven back to the residence by the Arkansas lawyer, who had met the plane, so that she could show him her new Jaguar...
...Do you remember the taped telephone conversation between Clinton and Gennifer Flowers that she played during the 1992 campaign...
...The Clintons are growing reckless...
...And he has been suborning perjury as January's news stories heartily suggest...
...Five years after America pooh-poohed the issue, we now see again that character matters...
...Again sleep seduced me...
...In fact, some of the very same stories that The American Spectator and the Los Angeles Times then broke now form the news stories of 1998 —for instance, the story of a woman named Paula being brought by a trooper to Governor Clinton's hastily arranged hotel room, or the story of a trooper whisking a "woman in a trench coat and a baseball cap" past the Secret Service into the quarters of the president-elect at 5:15 a.m...
...Yet he only lied to the press and the American people...
...Again he reminds us of his legendary youth, the barefoot boy growing up with Cramps...
...Paula Corbin Jones was emboldened to file her sexual harassment suit after she heard that an Arkansan named "Paula" was one of the women mentioned in the piece...
...She is equally hypocritical in attacking him and her perceived enemies for being political...
...In college days they engaged in all the left-wing protests...
...Hillary even served, while at Yale Law School, on a radical law review that depicted policemen as pigs deserving to be shot...
...The proper court for Boy Clinton is an impeachment, after which he can enroll in Sex Addicts Anonymous...
...Was he demanding increased federal monies for Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...That does not sound like a person devoted to the democratic process...
...It would take a miracle worker to keep such scandals alive if they lacked substance...
...And because the scandals are born of facts the Clintons face a long day in court, where the truth of their misbehavior can be established...
...That she denounces a moderate conservative such as Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr as "right-wing" or "extremist" speaks volumes about her own extremism and leaves one to wonder about her respect for civil liberties...
...On the ride back he drove and she was nowhere to be seen in the cal...
...The lady has guts...
...Did he take a bite out of his lower lip, look prayerfully into the cameras, and announce a dramatic reform of the White House intern program...
...My answer was that serial adultery is a serious matter...
...Again, character matters...
...By the way, when the Clintons complain of the "Clinton haters," do they include Jay Leno and David Letterman...
...Historians have the rest...
...I am waiting for James Carville to say, "This here's all old news...
...The additional stories that have now come out make it clear that Clinton's ithyphallic life never changed from the governorship to the presidency...
...In a way it is...
...It is as perverse for them to cry "politics" as it would be for a clergyman to scorn religion...
...Can you not hear it...
...They fill the executive mansion with these rich kids from the suburbs, children of privilege...
...Again, review the Clintons' lives...
...As editor of the Spectator I was chided back then for publishing the sex stories, which, I was told, were petty and a normal part of the lives of many sophisticates...
...In The American Spectator's reports of Governor and president-elect Clinton's womanizing and abuse of power there was no obstruction of justice—not yet...
...The Boy President is a hoot...
...He has been obstructing justice on a wide range of allegations, from White-water to campaign finance to adultery...
...sex education in the universities...
...And he enunciates apparently cost-free initiatives, education, health care, "the next historic step...
...Then in adult life they lied about it...
...While most young people were studying, socializing, and developing well-rounded personalities, the Clintons were ceaseless politicians...
...What was that to be...
...The other party will not hear of it...
...My agents know the names of several, and we know some of the government jobs that were offered them...
...Then there was the obvious recklessness of his behavior, attested to by all the troopers, nannies, and other witnesses in our stories...
...Yet all the elements of his egregious misbehavior were apparent in the stories of four years ago...
...The Clinton damage-control team called them old stories then, though some were actually quite fresh and amply substantiated by reliable witnesses and documentation...
...Well, the journalists who have reported her husband's misbehavior have certainly not failed...
...As for her talk of being beset by "extremists," I invite the citizenry to take a look at the Clintons' personal history...
...Moreover, now they find themselves in the same scandals they have been involved in for years...
...She claims her enemies have "failed...
...This is all a matter of the historic record...
...What might his reform be...
...Monica Lewinsky is young and was an intern...
...Patterson said...
...There are other women who are being brought forward to be deposed...
...I fell asleep...
...In that conversation Clinton counseled Flowers to lie to the press...
...Nor was there suborning of perjury...
...Apparently ordinary citizens and journalists who report having been victimized by his ravening lust or possessing a knowledge of his well-authenticated pattern of molestation, denial, and disparagement are to be targeted by her and her allies...
...David Brock "Living With the Clintons" JANUARY 1994 16 March 1998 • The American Spectator tion from her husband's infantile sex scandals to what she claims are the excesses of her perceived enemies...
...In fact it grew more reprehensible...
...It is not normal...
...They attack the very piocesses that are the foundation of our legal system...
...Now he is accused of counseling a more recent inamorata to lie under oath...
...The late-night wags never let up, and their numbers are holding up nicely...
...My fellow Americans, I have been calling for this reform since the day I arrived at the White House...
...They seek to stifle political disagreement by labeling those with whom they disagree "extremist" and somehow beyond the pale...
...We had not intended to use any names, first or last...
...They have no other lives than political lives...
...Moreover, these stories entailed even weightier matters—for instance, abuse of power, conflicts of interest, misuse of state property and of state employees...
...She is being discredited by the Clinton cronies as "unstable...
...Clinton's carnality is ravenous...
...Leaving the first name of Paula in the piece was an error...
...She worked as an intern (whoops, that word again) for a far-left law firm that defended the Black Panthers...
...He lays on the whoppers, "we have a smaller government" now and soon the federal deficit "will be simply zero...
...What was the Boy President intending with his fabulous "education initiative...
Vol. 31 • March 1998 • No. 3
